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The savage suburbia of Helen Garner.

I wanted to dong Martin Amos with a bat by Sophie Elmhurst, read by Nicolette Chin.

In early January, the Australian author, Helen Garner, decided to cut back an unruly bush in her

garden. Garner lives in a Melbourne sub unruly bush in her garden.

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